SOLD!
I’m excited to share that one of the paintings from The Secret Garden exhibition, currently on view at The Atelier Gallery, has sold. What makes this moment especially meaningful is that the piece, titled The Secret Garden was the final painting in the series.
Adding to the synchronicity, the collector works with Arts & Letters Live, a program that celebrates literature, and this entire series was inspired by the classic children’s book The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett.
As Carl Jung said: “Synchronicity is an ever-present reality for those who have eyes to see.” This moment feels like one of those rare alignments.
Grateful for this connection and support!
The Secret Garden
On View Until: January 11, 2026
Location: The Atelier Gallery, Lobby of The Atelier
Address: 1801 N. Pearl Street, Dallas, TX 75201
Just 1½ blocks from the DMA
Hours: Open daily, 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM
#Dallas painting
#DallasArt
#ArtExhibition
#ContemporaryArt
#DallasArtsDistrict
When I began creating The Secret Garden, I imagined a space where color and introspection could bloom together. If you missed the opening reception, there’s still time to step into that world.
On View Until: January 11, 2026
Location: The Atelier Gallery, Lobby of The Atelier
Address: 1801 N. Pearl Street, Dallas, TX 75201
Just 1½ blocks from the DMA
Hours: Open daily, 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM
If you visit, I’d love to hear what resonates with you.
#DallasArt
#ArtExhibition #painting
#ContemporaryArt
#DallasArtsDistric
As I wandered through The Secret Garden, the quiet culmination of a year’s labor, it dawned on me that this moment was not mine alone. It is a mosaic of countless hands and hearts, each leaving an imprint on the path that led here.
To those who lifted canvases and hung them with care, to those who offered me a corner to paint, who built the stretchers and framed my visions, thank you. To the friends who arrived early, sleeves rolled up, and to the new souls whose words of kindness steadied me when doubt crept in, thank you. To the teacher whose gentle critiques sharpened my sight, to the roommate who gave me family when I had none, even to those who slighted me, you became my fuel. To the laughter shared, the discipline kept the friends at work and at the gym who reminded me to persist, thank you.
This exhibition is not a solitary triumph; it is a garden grown from all of you, each a vital root in this season of my life. And to those who came to the reception,
your presence was the final bloom. From the depths of my heart, thank you.
Step into a world where winter yields to unexpected blossoms. My latest series, The Secret Garden, invites you to wander through a sanctuary of color and renewal—a reflection of the quiet spaces within us that long to be revived. Inspired by the timeless tale of rediscovering a forgotten garden, these paintings echo the journey of tending to our own inner landscapes. As Rainer Maria Rilke once wrote, “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.” Let this December be a season of awakening.
Photo: Bry Brad Flowers
On View: December 8 – January 11
Reception: Thursday, December 11 | 6–8 PM
The Gallery is on the floor level of the luxury apartment building
The Atelier | Arts District – Downtown Dallas
1801 N. Pearl Street, Dallas, TX 75201
I hope you’ll join me in celebration.
Parking: 1821 N Pearl Street
Update on Parking: Go to Kiosk and use code TAG11
For complimentary parking during the reception
On View: December 8 – January 11
Reception: Thursday, December 11 | 6–8 PM
The Gallery is on the floor level of the luxury apartment building
The Atelier | Arts District – Downtown Dallas
1801 N. Pearl Street, Dallas, TX 75201
I hope you’ll join me in celebration.
Parking: 1821 N Pearl Street
Free parking is available; kindly register your license plate at the opening
Do you ever wonder where dreams come from? I imagine them as thoughts from countless souls who lived before us, drifting through an unseen field of energy, weaving themselves into our unconscious at night. They slip quietly into our minds, mingling with memory, shaping the stories we tell ourselves in sleep.
And what of the images we return to repeatedly in our creative work, the forms that haunt us, the colors that insist on being seen?
Perhaps they are fragments of those dreams, resurfacing like tides, guiding us toward something we cannot yet name.
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
Edgar Allan Poe
#contemporaryart
#painting
#oilpainting
#naturepainting
#dallasart
, Step into my Secret Garden
brought to life one brushstroke at a time
now in full bloom.
Join me in celebrating a year of
a year woven with wonder, sorrow,
and the quiet beauty of beginnings and endings
"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage."
Rainer Maria Rilke
On View: December 8 – January 11
Reception: Thursday, December 11 | 6–8 PM
Atelier Gallery | Arts District – Downtown Dallas
1801 N. Pearl Street, Dallas, TX 75201
I hope these works speak to you. I hope you’ll join me in celebration.
Parking: 1821 N Pearl Street
Free parking is available; kindly register your license plate at the opening
#contemporaryart
#painting
#oilpainting
#dallasexhibition
#organicpainting
Obsession has its own palette. Lately, the color blue has claimed me, saturating thought and canvas alike. In an attempt to break the cycle, I turned to brightness, yellow and alizarin crimson pouring them into a painting titled What the Heat Knows. Yet even in this expressive blaze, the pull of blue persists.
As Goethe once wrote: “Colors are the deeds and sufferings of light.”
#contemporaryart
#painting
#oilpainting
#dallaspainter
#organicpainting
Stop for a moment and consider the impossible geometry of intersection, the billion, tiny, perfect coincidences that aligned our timelines to meet. Each crossroad, whether a lifelong anchor of friendship or a brief, beautiful, shared space, feels like a miniature miracle. To every soul whose destiny has brushed mine: Thank You. I celebrate this wonderful, improbable mystery of connection with you all.
Come and celebrate with me all the work that I have been working on this year!
“Synchronicity is an ever-present reality for those who have eyes to see.”
Carl JungOn View: December 8 – January 11
Reception: Thursday, December 11 | 6–8 PM
Atelier Gallery | Arts District – Downtown Dallas
1801 N. Pearl Street, Dallas, TX 75201
#painting
#oilpainting
#naturepainting
#organicpainting
Time is elusive, yet every brushstroke captures its essence.
Painting isn’t just creating, it’s measuring time in color, texture, and silence.
Each layer becomes a record of moments lived, felt, and transformed.
"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers."
James Baldwin
#contemporaryart
#painting
#oilpainting
#naturepainting
#organicpainting
#dallasart
#FloralPainting
#TheSecretGardenSeries
#ArtWithMeaning
#botanicalart
As the year comes to a close, my Secret Garden stands in full bloom.
What began as silence, blank walls, empty canvases, has grown into a quiet chorus of color and form.
Each brushstroke, each painting, carries the weight of joy and the whisper of sorrow, woven into petals and shadows.
I invite you to step into this garden, to wander among the stories that have blossomed in my studio.
Help me celebrate, your presence would mean the world to me.
#contemporaryart
#painting
#oilpainting
#naturepainting
#organicpainting
#dallasart
#FloralPainting
#BotanicalArt
#ArtistLife
#CreativeProcess
#AbstractArt
#DallasArtist
#dallasartexhbition
Putting the final strokes into this collection, inspired by The Secret Garden,
A meditation on renewal, on the quiet work of bringing dormant things back to life.
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
James Baldwin
As this year closes, I find myself grateful for the voices and moments that have stirred my imagination. These paintings are my offering, a gesture of beauty and hopefulness in a world that always needs both.
On View: December 8 – January 11
Reception: Thursday, December 11 | 6–8 PM
Atelier Gallery | Arts District – Downtown Dallas
1801 N. Pearl Street, Dallas, TX 75201
I hope these works speak to you. I hope you’ll join me in celebration.#contemporaryart
#painting
#oilpainting
#naturepainting
#organicpainting
#dallasart
#FloralPainting
#TheSecretGardenSeries
#ArtWithMeaning
#BotanicalArt
#ContemporaryArt
Blue is the color of the ocean, the quiet of a solitary sky, the breath between thoughts. Carl Jung saw the ocean as a metaphor for the subconscious.
For me, blue is the color of solitude and introspection. It’s where I go to listen inwardly, to reflect, to feel.
In the stillness of blue, I find clarity. In its depth, I find myself.
Carl Jung once wrote, “Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes.”
#contemporaryart
#painting
#oilpainting
#naturepainting
#organicpainting
#dallasart
#FloralPainting
#thesecretgardenseries
#BotanicalArt
#contemporaryart
Beauty from Sorrow
We all carry the potential to create and to destroy.
But in moments of heartbreak, if we can reach inward and shape something beautiful from the ache, we turn pain into creativity.
Beethoven composed Moonlight Sonata while losing 60% of his hearing.
A masterpiece born from silence and deep sorrow.
A reminder: even in despair, we can still create beauty.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” — Rumi
Let your sorrow be your spark.
#contemporaryart
#abstractpainting
#painting
#oilpainting
#naturepainting
#organicpainting
#dallasart
#dallasartist
Reception: Thursday , December 11, 2025
from 6:00-8:00 pm. #contemporaryart
#painting
#oilpainting
#naturepainting
#organicpainting
#dallasart
#FloralPainting
#BotanicalArt
My paintings are like diary entries , visual memories from specific chapters of my life. They make me reflect on memory itself. Are we, at our core, just a collection of memories?
It fascinates me how we romanticize certain moments, how two people can share the same experience yet remember it so differently.
Music, scents, even colors can transport us back to a time, a feeling, a place , sometimes with startling clarity.
So, here’s a question I keep returning to:
If you could erase the painful memories, would you?
And if you did, would you still, be you?
“Each man’s memory is his private literature, and every recollection affects us with something
of the penetrative force that belongs to the work of art.”
Aldous Huxley #contemporaryart
#painting
#oilpainting
#naturepainting
#organicpainting
#dallasart
#FloralPainting
#BotanicalArt
#ArtistLife
#CreativeProcess
#AbstractArt
#DallasArtist
Last week to catch De Profundis: Echoes from the Deep at the Irving Arts Center!
Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 12–5 PM
Carpenter Hall Lobby
As this exhibition ends, I want to express my deepest gratitude to everyone who made this experience so meaningful.
A heartfelt thank you to Manci Inman for her brilliant curatorial vision and unwavering dedication to the Irving Arts Center.
Her thoughtful organization of the reception and artist talk made this journey unforgettable.
To the incredible team who supported the event, and especially the devoted docents, thank you for your time, energy, and care.
This exhibition has truly set a new standard for me. From the deepest part of my heart thank you.
#IrvingArtsCenter
#contemporaryart
#painting
#oilpainting
#naturepainting
#organicpainting
#ArtExhibition
#ContemporaryArt
#dallasartscene
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.”
Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet
#contemporaryart
#painting
#oilpainting
#naturepainting
#organicpainting
#dallasart
#FloralPainting
#BotanicalArt
Thank you to everyone who came out to the opening reception of De Profundis: Echoes from the Deep and to those who joined me for my very first artist talk .
Your support means the world!
If you haven’t had a chance to see the show yet, there’s still time! The exhibition is on view for two more weeks and closes on Saturday, October 25.
Irving Arts Center
Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 12–5 PM
Come explore the depths and let me know what you think!
#ArtExhibition
#IrvingArtsCenter
#DallasArtScene
#ContemporaryArt
#dallasart
Blue is the quiet hue where solitude meets creation.
Painting is a dialogue with silence,
melancholy its most faithful muse.
Van Gogh once wrote, “One must work and be daring, in spite of all the sorrows in the heart.”#contemporaryart
#painting
#oilpainting
#naturepainting
#organicpainting
#dallasart
#FloralPainting
#TheSecretGardenSeries
#ArtWithMeaning
#BotanicalArt
#HumanNature
